It's not the "AI nightmare", it's a nightmare of capitalism, proprietary software and user-hostile behavior by a greedy, profit-extracting Big Tech corporation.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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You’re not wrong. AI is just another tool to scrape cash to the top while eliminating jobs. Could it realize benefits like doing specialized research and testing? Sure…but again, the results of that work are lost human jobs and scraping money to the top. We can argue about advancing technology in a horse cart driver vs automobile thing (won’t anyone think about the poor farriers out of work?) but we’ve already done everything we can to eliminate blue collar jobs with as much automation as possible. Now AI is set to attack middle class jobs. Economically I don’t think that’s going to work out well.
I mean, the problem isn't the existence/obviation of jobs, but what we do next when it happens. If the people whose jobs are automated away are left out with no money or employment, that's a serious problem. If we as a society support them in learning something new that puts their skills to good use, and maybe even reduce the expected working hours of a full-time job to 35 or 32 hours a week, that's an absolute win in my book.
Well that’s the point. We don’t support them as a society. From education to health care once you lose your job, you’re SOL, and in this hyper-capitalist dystopia we keep tipping towards I don’t see that changing.
Online shopping has removed a lot of retail jobs. Instead of seeing a transition to different jobs or fewer hours, today we see people working multiple jobs to get by.
The reason these things are making money is specifically because they increase efficiency (how much money a capitalist can make from existing capital) by removing human labor. Giving any portion of that to laborers is completely antithetical to its entire purpose.
Yea, this is because society system is lagging behind and we have not done the right changes fast enough to prevent suffering due to technological advancements, in my opinion
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All true, and all a problem for which linux has been a solution (in the computing world) for decades now.
It's not just Linux, but free & open source software in general. And it's not just desktop PCs that are plagued by this corporate spyware, it's much worse when looking at the mobile device landscape. The only real solution for mobile devices is GrapheneOS with FOSS software installed from the F-Droid marketplace. Browsers are also under attack by proprietary software corporations, Google just intentionally broke adblockers on all Chromium-based browsers, so they can generate more ad revenue. Last year, they tried to push a proposal that would have massively extended their monopoly on web browsers (WEI). All the streaming services are screwing their users over and increasing the subscription prices while making the content library smaller. It's such a fucking scam, and it's almost sad to see how many people are dumb enough to fall for it.
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Ai can't hurt you unless you willingly engage with the services and software where they exist
... like Windows, or Office, or Google docs, or Search, or Gmail, or Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube and all the others...
Yes, good job.
Edit most of those are easy discards, no replacement needed. the rest can be containerized or replaces with an open source alternative.
Edit edit I'm not disagreeing that Linux provides the OS framework to suffice the avoidance ofany of those things you listed.
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Linux distro pictured: Ubuntu
People might get offended by this since it's also owned by a company.
We tried to tell them. Years ago, when Windows 10 came out, we tried to tell them all, and did they listen? LOL, no, they scoffed at us, laughed at us, mocked us, said "it'll be fine!", and "it'll be great!", and "it's not so bad!", and even tried to cancel us for warning people, and for promoting linux as an alternative. So what are they doing now, now that all the Microsoft chickens have come home to roost? They're panicking because all their data really does belong to Microsoft, and they're all so thoroughly entrenched with Windows that they can't even escape without wrecking their lives.
Fools.
I never even had Windows past XP. I've been using linux for 6 years now, and I've never looked back even once -- and every month there's one more reason I see to never put Windows on any computer I own.
Not happening. People are always afraid of new features. But when they try, see it's convenient, and forget all about past reservations.
Its going to be the same with this. Ai is here and soon we won't be able to imagine computers without it.
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